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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US

TechCrunch LA

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. billion of purchases made through the Klarna platform. True competition is coming to this space, this decade,” he said. Klara is now live with 24 of the top 100 U.S.

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Dallas Day of.Net | Training and Trends on Microsoft Technologies

Tech Zulu Event

Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! Leveraging these techniques should put you on an even playing field or ahead of the native app competition.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me.